“My daddy was Albert L. Hudson, he was born June 7, 1899 and died almost 90 years later on February 18, 1989. In 1938 Daddy bought the lot where the mill was built, He partnered up with Benjamin “Ben” Lewis Clements, who was a millwright. But it was their brothers who pretty much got the building and equipment established. Daddy’s brother, Arther, built the building, and Ben’s brother, Elijah, also a millwright, (who owed Ben money), helped Daddy put the machinery and elevators in. Daddy opened the mill for business the first of July, 1940.

They decided to call this new mill Exchange Milling because people could bring their wheat and exchange it for flour. A toll was taken out for the grinding. For each 60# bushel of wheat, the farmer would get 32# of flour, 4# of middlings, and 4# of wheat bran. The other 20# was kept by the mill for processing. Although he was partner, Ben Clements didn’t come to work at the mill until 1944 or 1945.